Mohamed el-Taheri

Mohamed el-Taheri (1098-1139) was a commander of the Almoravid Dynasty.

Biography
Mohamed el-Taheri was born in 1098 in Chefchaouen in the Almoravid Dynasty (present-day Chefchaouen Province, Morocco) to a Muslim family. el-Taheri became a commander of the Almoravids, and led an army of Almoravids during the Spanish Reconquista. In the 1138 battle of Siguenza, he was defeated by a Castilian army under Miguel Barbero while he attempted to prevent them from raiding al-Murabitun, and el-Taheri fled the battle with two of his bodyguards, bloody from battle wounds. el-Taheri returned to the Almoravid court in Cordoba, where he was sentenced to death for his cowardice. He was executed by beheading (dar ar-riqab) in 1139 in Cordoba.